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Xbox Live Arcade This Week: Gel and Blazing Birds
It’s obscure game week on Xbox Live Arcade, with Wednesday seeing the release of Gastronaut Studio’s Gel: Set & Match and Vector 2 Games’ Blazing Birds. Gel: Set & Match is a puzzle game which features multicolored blocks that melt as you match them together, with an Action mode that adds a little side-scrolling to…
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Champions Online Heroically Delayed
A true superhero knows when to boldly charge into battle and when to delay your game for a couple of months in order to make sure it’s solid. And that’s just what Champions Online developer Cryptic is doing. Originally slated for a July 14th release, the developer is delaying the game until September 1st, in…
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Rock Band Unplugged DLC Detailed
Harmonix has released the full track list for Rock Band Unplugged, which we already knew, but they’ve also announced the first batch of downloadable content, which we didn’t know. This weekend’s video reveal of the full track listing for Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP looks a little more legitimate today, as the official listing…
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Wal-Mart Launching Video Game Trade-In Kiosks
Wal-Mart has teamed up with kiosk company e-Play to test automated video game trade-in kiosks in several store locations throughout the Northeastern United States. The machines, currently being tested in 77 Wal-Mart locations in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, should be relatively simple to use. You scan the bar code on the game…
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The Nintendo Download: A Milestone Marked By Majora’s Mask
We’ve struck a major milestone in this week’s Nintendo Download, as The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask becomes the 300th game to grace the Wii Virtual Console. If I have to explain what The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is to you people, then you might be at the wrong website. The second outing for…
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Guitar Hero 5 Brings New Look, New Features, And New Bands
Determined to deliver more than just another band game sequel, Neversoft gives Guitar Hero 5 a brand new look, innovative new features, and introduces more than 25 new artists to the rhythm game genre. More than 25 new artists means that we’ll find at least 26 songs we’ve never played before included on the disc…
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Meet The Spy, Quite The Ladies’ Man
What kind of master spy leaks Valve’s Meet the Spy video onto the internet in the middle of the night? The same kind that has an entire file dedicated to the Scout’s mom. This is exactly what happens when you’re all sneaky. Someone goes and sneaks right back, uploading your introduction video all over the…
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Street Fighter IV Hyper Turbo PC Specs
Is your computer tough enough to go toe to toe with the world warriors of Street Fighter IV? Capcom’s official recommended PC specs hold the answer. As you can imagine, rendering frantic fighting action isn’t a job for a low-end PC. According to Capcom, you’re going to need at least an Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz…
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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Pre-Order Bonus Is Golden
Activision, which really needs to learn how to space out its Transformers news, is granting fans who pre-order Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen access to golden versions of Optimus Prime and Megatron. An exclusive pre-order bonus for those who put their money down at GameStop, a special code to unlock the golden versions of the…
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Unbound Saga PSP Skips UMD Release
Vogster’s comic-book inspired brawler for the PlayStation Portable will be following Patapon 2’s lead and skipping UMD entirely, releasing directly onto the PlayStation Store this July 16th. Unbound Saga, announced at the New York City Comic Con earlier this year, is a beat-em up game with comic book flair, and now one of the first…
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XSEED Bringing Ragnarok Online DS Stateside
XSEED has teamed up with developer GungHo Works to bring the Nintendo DS version of popular 2D online game Ragnarok Online to North America this winter. Losing the massively multiplayer aspects of the PC version but retaining a lot of the look and feel, Ragnarok Online DS is more of a traditional action RPG. The…
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BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 E3 Prelude
BioWare lays out their E3 plans for Mass Effect 2 in this E3 prelude video, giving us an early look at the expansive changes coming to the next chapter in their sci-fi epic. I’d simply say that the game seems to be shaping up quite nicely, but I’m afraid I don’t possess that level of…
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More Than A Million Flock To Free Realms
Sony Online Entertainment‘s new family-friendly online game Free Realms has exploded out of the gate, with more than one million registered users within 17 days of launch. Free Realms is a free-to-play massively-multiplayer online game that combines puzzle games, pet raising, card dueling, exploration, and combat into one colorful and attractive package. So attractive that…
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Bionic Commando Launch Trailer Does Its Job Well
The launch trailer for Capcom’s Bionic Commando does an amazing job of making me forget anything negative I’ve said about the game in the past. I’ve had issues with the controls in the past, and the multiplayer demo wasn’t exactly thrilling, but put together a swinging montage set to some powerful music and I’m suddenly…
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The Sims 3 iPhone Speaks To The Trees
Talking to tall fir trees is just one of the many exciting activities planned for the iPhone version of The Sims 3. Judging by the latest set of screenshots for the smaller, touch-enable version of the latest installment of The Sims, you can also barge into people’s houses and kick over trash cans. That certainly…
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Cooking Mama Dishes Dirt On Science Papa
Yesterday we pinged Majesco for a comment on Activision’s newly announced Science Papa title for the Wii and DS, only to have Cooking Mama herself reveal her sordid past with the science geek. We were a bit taken aback by Activision’s choice of names for their new mini-game compilation, but Mama isn’t surprised. After all,…
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Rockstar Twitters Next Grand Theft Auto IV DLC
Rockstar Games uses the power of Twitter to tease the gaming public about upcoming details on the next batch of downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV. I’m not sure if Twitter is a gift, or a curse. On one hand, it lets us share our personal thoughts with millions of people who probably couldn’t…
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Fox And LaBeouf Return For Transformers Game Sequel
Activision has confirmed that the all-star cast of the original Transformers Movie game and Shia LaBeouf will be once again lending their voices to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The cast from the original game makes the transition to the sequel intact, which means that the original voice of Megatron, Frank Welker, will again be…
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F.E.A.R. 2 Getting New Maps, New Heads
Now that Monolith’s free downloadable content for F.E.A.R. 2 has come and gone, it’s time to pay for a couple of new maps and some extra heads. The second of three planned sets of downloadable content for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, the Armored Front pack’s main feature is a set of four unique heads used…
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Making A Game Out Of Today’s War
The video game industry was about to get its first major game based on a current military action, only to have publisher Konami pull the plug. What’s wrong with releasing a realistic war video game? Six Days In Fallujah, which was announced and then abandoned by its publisher last month, was a game both hyped…
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